I’m normally a nonfiction reader – I’d almost always rather pick up a biography over historical fiction – but I grabbed this one because I was curious how Bergman would approach telling imagined short stories about real people. The collection looks at women “defined by their creative impulses, fierce independence, and sometimes reckless decisions.” Some are famous in their own right, while others struggle with a life adjacent to the spotlight. In an effort to try my hand at Book Riot’s Read Harder challenge, I recently got out of my genre comfort zone and picked up Megan Mayhew Bergman’s second short story collection, Almost Famous Women. Maybe there wasn’t a worthy place for the female hero to live out her golden years, to be celebrated as the men had been celebrated, to take from that celebration what she needed to survive.” – Megan Mayhew Bergman, Almost Famous Women Maybe the world has been bad to its great and unusual women. Maybe what I knew was that there was more mystery and hurt than I could have imagined. “Now reading her letters, I knew more about the woman I thought I loved.
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